“I write not because I have the strength to write, but because I do not have the strength to remain silent.” -Rav Avraham Yitzchok Kook zt’l

Rav Moshe Weinberger on davening and a relationship with Hashem

“If you don’t know about God, if you don’t care about God, if you don’t feel anything for God, so then the most uncomfortable place in the world to be is shul [synagogue]. Unless the guy next to you is interesting. And that’s why you’ll find people who are normally very shy and reserved outside of shul and all of the sudden in shul it’s like Johnny Carson or Jay Leno. He’s got so much to say and so much to talk about. There’s an old song that I remember from one of my earlier gilgulim, “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with”. You know that song? Really the Rabbono Shel Olam is the one that we love. People don’t know. They are not hearing about the Rabbono Shel Olam, they are not hearing what our bubbies and zaidies took for granted: a personal relationship that they. had and an ongoing dialogue with the Creator of the world.”

(I found this transcribed quote in a “posting ideas” folder. Sadly, I forget which shiur it was from.) Sent via Blackberry by AT&T